What are you reading right now?

[VPS]

Keep on reading fiction everyone.

I‘ve been away for more than 3 months and can’t wait to get home and access to my public library and will be revisiting this thread for ideas

An 81-year-old brain doctor's 7 'hard rules' for keeping your memory 'sharp as a whip'

Neuroscientist Richard Restak has spent decades studying how to enhance brain health and memory. Here's how he stays mentally sharp at 81 years old.

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I use Goodreads to keep track of what I’ve read.

 

[NM]

What am I reading right now? AFF of course.

 

[Drakecula]

I use Goodreads to keep track of what I’ve read.

I use Goodreads to track what I own. It is very helpful to consult my collection via the app when I am in a bookstore or at a book fair.

 

[Drakecula]

I recently read Schapelle Corby's book. It was interesting - I vaguely recall all the news about it back in the 2000s. Currently reading a book I remember liking a lot as a kid called Pagan's Crusade, a medieval historical fiction, but struggling to get into it. Maybe because I'm not a kid anymore...

 

[Quickstatus]

Why read when you can Audible

Current Audible title:

 

[Drakecula]

I am currently listening to an audio book - Chemical Hearts - but not through Audible. I use BorrowBox through my local library so it's free. I don't listen to audio books a lot, my mind wanders if I'm not actively listening, so I save them for car rides, bus trips, that kind of thing.

But as for physical book reading, I'm reading Headcase by Jack Heath. It's the fourth book in a series (possibly the last book too) and the main character is a cannibal who consults to the FBI. Crime thriller fiction I guess you could say.

 

[VPS]

The Personal Librarian — the fictionalized account of the very real Belle da Costa Greene.

I went to the JP Morgan library when I was in New York and learnt about this woman so now reading the book

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2021/08/31/1031802246/the-story-of-j-p-morgans-personal-librarian-and-why-she-chose-to-pass-as-white

 

[gaz0303]

Travel related book - I’m currently reading ‘Paris and other Disappointments’ by Adam Rozenbachs. A light, funny read about father and son travelling to Europe together. I think the characters are a little close to home which makes it an enjoyable read.

 

[Drakecula]

I finished my crime thriller and am picking back up a book I had to put aside for my book award panel reading thing I did last year. It's in a series called The Others by Anne Bishop. Urban fantasy set in alternate Earth - werewolves, vampires, etc. Bit of fun.

 

[RooFlyer]

Reading ... off and on, to be honest ... "Magnificent Obsession. The story of the Mitchell Library, Sydney" by BH Fletcher. Includes the story of David Scott Mitchell, whose collections form the core of the library in which I've spent many hours immersed in.

 

[kookaburra75]

Have just started "On the Curry Trail: Chasing the Flavor That Seduced the World" by Raghavan Iyer. It's a great pity that he has passed away. It's a great cookbook as well as story of how flavours spread around the world. And yes, there's one recipe from Australia.

 

[Drakecula]

Have just started "On the Curry Trail: Chasing the Flavor That Seduced the World" by Raghavan Iyer. It's a great pity that he has passed away. It's a great cookbook as well as story of how flavours spread around the world. And yes, there's one recipe from Australia.

I think if I were reading that, it would make me hungry. Haha.

I haven't been reading too much lately, still on the same book I mentioned in my last post.

 

[Cossie]

Not reading much apart from online, but very surprised as to the number of book shops within a 5 minute walk of our hotel in Zagreb. Over a dozen, plus it is good to see many people sitting and reading hardcopy in parks and cafes.

One book I do intend reading when home is Growing Grapes Might Be Fun….. by Deirdre Macken.
If it’s all like the extract I read recently, it should be a good fun read.

Allen & Unwin - Australia

www.allenandunwin.com

 

[Drakecula]

Does anyone else buy a favourite book of theirs in other languages when they visit other countries? I do that with Harry Potter books.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Does anyone else buy a favourite book of theirs in other languages when they visit other countries? I do that with Harry Potter books.

Read all the Davinci code books in Italian! Plus Name of the Rode by Umberto Ecco and others. One needs to read local authors in original languages.

 

[Cossie]

Read all the Davinci code books in Italian! Plus Name of the Rode by Umberto Ecco and others. One needs to read local authors in original languages.

Easy for you to say! I have enough trouble with one language.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Easy for you to say! I have enough trouble with one language.

English as a foreign language.

Very unaustralian of me, sorry. Ho frequentato quattro corsi in Italia, più oltre 20 anni di corsi di italiano in BNE. (Four courses in Italy and 20+ years of courses in BNE.) También he hecho cursos de español en Madrid. (Also done Spanish courses in Madrid!)

Japansese via DuoLingo - badly!

 

[Brissy1]

All my plans to read on a long plane trip never seem to happen. Usually too tired.
Recently bought this for some serious but fascinating reading, recommended by my sister.

 

[trooper]

The latest by this guy...

 

[TheRealTMA]

How They Fought: Indigenous Tactics and Weaponry of Australia’s Frontier Wars - Boolarong Press

Ray Kerkhove The history of Australia's Frontier Wars is becoming a hot topic for debate and research. It is now part of our national educational syllabus. However, there are very few books available which explain, in detail, the modes of warfare First Australians applied during the Frontier...

boolarongpress.com.au

The untold story of First Nations resistance in the Frontier Wars - ABC Radio National

Fighting for country the First Nations way

www.abc.net.au